Overview
- Jharkhand posted a record 262/3 — the highest total in an SMAT final — before bowling Haryana out for 193 at Pune’s MCA Stadium to win by 69 runs.
- Captain Ishan Kishan smashed 101 off 49 balls with 10 sixes, adding 177 for the second wicket with Kumar Kushagra, who struck 81 off 38.
- Kishan became only the second batter to score a century in an SMAT final and the first captain to do so, equalling the tournament mark of five hundreds.
- Sushant Mishra and Bal Krishna took three wickets each, with Vikash Singh removing two in the first over as Haryana’s chase faltered despite Yashvardhan Dalal’s 53.
- Ishan Kishan earned Player of the Match, Anukul Roy claimed Player of the Series, and Kishan finished as the tournament’s top run-scorer with 517.